WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 212, 27 January 1913, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by ■'Eileen"). FEMININE FRILLS Rose pink in all its fascinating shades i is once more tin- color of the hour. Some of the new dresses are made of two-toned corduroy, combined with silk charmeuse or chiffon in plain color. It would be diilicult to recall another year in which furs made a general appearance at the end of August and early in September. Some of the new stoles possess tiny flat round collars. Muffs are quite as large as ever they were, but the smartest are extremely flat in appearance. The alliance of fur and -real lace will be one of the features of the evening frocks this winter. Plush is likely to be the successor of velvet for the winter outdoor costume of the woman of fashion. Howns of color that are not too decided are said to be those that prove the most fascinating to the woman of •50. Tunics to wear on white satin afternoon gowns arc of white tulle weighted down by a band of coarse Venise. LINES ABOUT WOMEN A woman. Miss Sarah Christopher, has recently been appointed fire-inspector in , New York. Her special work is in con- : nection with the clothing factories, in which some 100,000 persons, most of them women and girls, are employed. Miss Christopher in described as keen, intelligent, fearless, determined and tireless. A fireman of 13 years' standing, who accompanied her on her first rounds, said of her: 'There's little that'll get past her. I've never seen anyone smarter than she is," A woman fire inspector has been at work for some months in Brooklyn, New York. It seems probable that her excellent work weighed with the authorities in their selection of a woman for Manhattan. "By a tragic coincidence, on the very day of the festival by which her fellow townsmen now pay yearly honor to Mr TliomaK Hardy a gloom was cast over Dorchester by the news of the sudden death of Mrs Hardy." The daughter of I a Devonshire father and niece of the late Archdeacon Gifford, the deceased shared tor nearly 40 years the struggles and triumphs of the veteran novelist, they having married in 1874. the year in which he published "Far from the Madding Crowd." Mrs Hardy was herself the author of a number of short stories, poems, and sketches. She had strong opinions of her own. and was a keen suffragist, even taking part in processions. Mr Hardy would not allow the village celebrations to be postponed on

".Mount of his wife's death. At her funeral chief among the floral tributes laid on the grave was a wreath of white winter (lowers and lilies bearinjr this sorrowing dedication: "From her lonely husband, with all the old affection." Preaching at Ballarat the other day the Rev. S. J. Hoban exhorted mothers who are anxious to get their daughters off, not to attempt to make a business of choosing husbands for them. That had not been done for themselves in the great majority of cases. Nor did their daughters want it. He did not blame the daughter, for it was she who had to live with the man.

Every day almost one hears of some fresh attack by feminity on spheres of occupation that have been long regarded as the distinct appanages of "mere man." A few days ago. for example, the first woman "wireless" operator commenced her first voyage on the American steamer Minnesota; and now intelligence comes from Budapest that Mile Bulford, the daughter of the well-known Continental jockey, Sidney Bulford, has just made application to the Budajcst Jockey Club for a rider's license. She has already received the full training of a jockey: and if her desires to commence her career as a rider on the Hungarian turf are fulfilled, as they probably will be. Mile Bulfor will have the honor of being the first licensed female jockey in the world.